Led · Series A · Feb 2025

Largo.ai, led by CEO Sami Arpa, provides AI-driven solutions for the film, TV and advertising industries from its base in Lausanne, Switzerland. The company has developed patented core technologies that understand content by analysing cinematographic patterns and simulating real human behaviour. Those methods underpin advanced AI models that assess a project’s structural patterns, strengths and weaknesses, anticipated audience emotions, demographic reach, and expected audience size. Largo.ai’s solutions deliver both qualitative and quantitative insights into audience preferences and have been trained on extensive datasets: over 400,000 films and TV series, 950,000 talents, 59,000 scripts and 200,000+ ads. The company has a presence in Los Angeles, London and Istanbul. Largo.ai plans to use the new funding to drive growth and enrich its core business areas. Largo is an EPFL spin-off that provides next-generation storytelling tools to the movie and advertising industries via its SaaS platform, Largo.ai. Its AI engine uses a cognitive pattern understanding system to analyze video, audio, and text and convert those patterns into actionable insights for producers, writers, distributors, and ad agencies. Largo.ai is used by scores of producers in Hollywood and Europe and has been applied to hundreds of films for content insights, casting suggestions, and financial forecasts; some of those films have been released on Netflix and Amazon and nominated for major awards. The company recently launched an extension of Largo.ai for commercial and online video advertising in partnership with Zurich-based Stories AG. Largo says it will use new funding to accelerate expansion into new markets and to fuel its go-to-market strategy. The business model is SaaS-based, providing data-assisted intelligence across production and distribution segments. Largo has launched a new SaaS platform, Largo.A.I, which provides producers, writers and distributors with rapid analysis and forecasts of viewer reactions and film success. The company’s AI engine analyzes cognitive patterns from video, audio and text and converts them into actionable insights. Until now Largo delivered results via electronic reports; the new platform gives customers direct access to tools that return analysis within minutes. The team plans to use the recent financing to develop new tools, grow headcount and accelerate market entry. Largo will soft-launch the platform and showcase it at the Berlin Film Festival (23–25 February) as one of the selected Horizon 2020 start-ups. Management framed festival participation as an opportunity to pitch to industry players and find potential customers. Largo Films develops Sofy.tv, a video-on-demand platform dedicated to movies shorter than 40 minutes. Its technology enables targeted movie recommendations to the right audience, aiming to increase engagement. The platform was launched in May. Largo received a CHF 100,000 FIT seed loan from the Foundation for Technological Innovation and will use the support for technology transfer. The FIT seed loan program targets companies not older than one year to support prototyping and commercial development. Largo is presented as an EPFL-affiliated startup and was named among four Western Switzerland winners that together received CHF 400,000.

Participated · Equity · Jul 2024

DAOBase provides an AI-driven data and infrastructure platform that helps DAOs and voters build on-chain and off-chain data reputation layers and intelligently monitor governance. The platform integrates seven blockchains and covers over 160,000 DAOs, six million voters, and more than 200 certified partners, positioning it as the largest DAO aggregator and analytics platform in the market. Core capabilities include advanced algorithms for reputation and governance monitoring and the recently launched DAO BadgeX, an on-chain reputation system for Web3 governance users. The company plans to introduce additional platform asset series to enhance functionality and user experience. DAOBase intends to use recent funding to scale product capabilities, expand market presence, and support global outreach. The firm is set to enter a rapid development phase in Q4 2024.

Participated · Series B · Aug 2021

RepairSmith operates a mobile auto-repair platform that lets customers book online and have a technician perform inspections or repairs at their driveway. Launched in 2019 out of Mercedes‑Benz’s incubator, the startup is active in seven states and reports roughly 90% of appointments are completed on-site. About a little over a quarter of its business is B2B, serving fleets, rental agencies and dealerships, with the remainder consumer-focused. Technicians are employed rather than contracted, a deliberate choice to attract and retain qualified staff. For jobs that cannot be completed in the field (around 10%), RepairSmith tows vehicles to partner body shops. The company has built its own software and logistics platform and plans to expand into all major U.S. metropolitan areas by the end of 2022.

Led · Series A · Apr 2015

InstaBrand is a Los Angeles, California–based provider of a mobile influencer marketing platform. Led by CEO and co-founder Eric Dahan, the platform lets brands connect with influencers and track project progress with real-time analytics. Users can automatically build and manage campaigns based on each brand's objectives and goals. The company serves clients across fashion, lifestyle, film and entertainment, automotive, technology and food industries, including L’Oréal Paris, Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana, Hyundai, Kia, McDonald’s and P&G. InstaBrand closed a $2.5M Series A and intends to use the funds to further develop its technology product.